After a harrowing yet beautiful trek over every single back road in Costa Rica, I am now happily settled at my final destination, Playa Tamarindo. Within two hours of arriving, I was already in the water for my surf lesson, and I am now able to pop up and ride a wave like a pro…or maybe like a whale in the process of being beached, but whatever. I have a board for the next three blissful days, and I plan on hitting the waves both early in the morning and in the midafternoon to get plenty of practice. The byproduct of all of this activity is that I have the appetite of a buffalo, which resulted in my consumption of an entire large pizza for dinner tonight. I know the waiter wanted to make a comment, but was graceful enough to keep his mouth shut.
I am going to go find ice cream now. The beast is still hungry.